A new video published this week by the entertainment-based media outlet Looper throws a lot of shade on actor/daredevil Johnny Knoxville, and the video is getting blowback from fans of the Knoxville native.

The provocative five-minute video, titled “The Real Reasons We Don’t Hear From Johnny Knoxville Anymore,” was posted Monday on YouTube, where it had been viewed more than four and a half million times by Thursday evening. The video issues a series of condemnations, back-handed compliments and straightforward compliments to assert that Knoxville is in obscurity … though maybe not really and also maybe not for long.

The video blames Knoxville’s obscurity on his bad acting, roles in movie flops, the death of his friend and “Jackass” co-star Ryan Dunn and a series of injuries, including one in which, “he broke his own penis and tore his urethra when a 400-pound motorcycle landed on him … he must use a catheter twice a day.”

The 45-year-old Knoxville, aka PJ Clapp, grew up in South Knoxville and first achieved fame as the host of the MTV prankster/stunt show “Jackass,” which debuted in 2000. His career eventually brought him to the big screen with “Jackass” movies and other films such as “Men in Black II,” “Walking Tall” and “Dukes of Hazzard.” The Looper video acknowledges some of his film successes but claims, “He’s not much of an actor” and ridicules him for his part in “The Ringer.”

The video then runs through a checklist of injuries sustained by Knoxville and zeroes in on Dunn’s death, which took a toll on Knoxville’s psyche – and by extension (according the video), Knoxville’s career.

Looper then shifts into a more positive spin, crediting Knoxville’s “financial success” with the 2013 film “Bad Grandpa” and noting a couple of upcoming Knoxville indie films (“Weightless” with Julianne Nicholson and “Above Suspicion” with “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke). The video also points out that Knoxville, a married father of three, has a “happy life as a family man” and is “not the tabloid type” and concludes “he’s earned a break.”

Despite that flattering conclusion, many of Knoxville’s fans were irritated at what they considered cheap shots and oversights in the video. Some of the comments on the YouTube video point out other films that Knoxville has been in and will be in, one of the commenters condemned the “dumb conjecture in this video” and another said it was “tasteless” to connect Dunn’s death to an alleged career slump by Knoxville.

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